We’re always looking for our next featured member, whether you’re helping out your peers in the forums or giving your two cents in the Open IT Forum discussions. Featured members are shown off in the What’s New boxes, the IT Knowledge Exchange community newsletter, the Community Blog, and on Twitter! In addition to some great swag you’ll get your very own featured member badge to flaunt on your profile page. So get moving in the community, upload a photo, and update your profile so we can properly strut your stuff!

Pay it forward.

Whether you’ve already been featured or you’re super grateful to the community member who helped you troubleshoot your data center meltdown, submit your featured member nominations today. See someone giving knock-out answers or read a particularly insightful blog post? Let us know! Tell us in the comments section here or shoot me an email.

With its faster performance, enhanced manageability, and improved security and compliance features, Windows® 7 is the new “must have” platform for enterprises. But making a successful move to Windows® 7 requires careful planning. Join us for an in-depth look at the issues global technology provider Dell faced when rolling out Windows® 7 in its own environment. Dell examined all the same questions organizations like yours would need to consider, including assessing whether to continue using current hardware and software, how a large OS rollout would affect the network, how to migrate user settings and data, and whether to put email or other data in the cloud.

This week’s IT blog top 10 covers all the majors from September so far: Windows 8, the IT job market, Target’s website blunder. Check them out, and share your own favorite blog posts in the comments section!

Today’s featured member, CompEng, is an engineer in Pennsylvania who’s been bringing his questions to IT Knowledge Exchange since mid-2009. Now he has a Featured Member badge to go with his Bronze Medal!

We’re always looking for our next featured member, whether you’re helping out your peers in the forums or giving your two cents in the Open IT Forum discussions. Featured members are shown off in the What’s New boxes, the IT Knowledge Exchange community newsletter, the Community Blog, and on Twitter! In addition to some great swag you’ll get your very own featured member badge to flaunt on your profile page. So get moving in the community, upload a photo, and update your profile so we can properly strut your stuff!

Pay it forward.

Whether you’ve already been featured or you’re super grateful to the community member who helped you troubleshoot your data center meltdown, submit your featured member nominations today. See someone giving knock-out answers or read a particularly insightful blog post? Let us know! Tell us in the comments section here or shoot me an email.

We’ll be giving away a Nintendo 3DS** to three lucky members, one for each category:

Most Useful Script: Have an IT script that a lot of people could use … if only they’d thought of it? This could be your category. Tip: Solve your own need, and chances are you’ll be solving a multitude of others’ needs.

Most Creative Script: Think you’ve figured out a really cool (although not necessarily necessary) hack to your daily IT – or personal – needs? We want to see it!

Best Feedback from the Community: That’s right, we want to hear from you! Check out the IT Scripts page for the latest entries. Try them out, and rate them! Leave your opinions in the discussion section and win a chance at the third Nintendo 3DS just for sharing your two cents.

*Entries not tagged with IT Scripts will not be considered for the contest.

**Due to restrictions on the Nintendo 3DS, you must 18 years old to enter and win this contest. We can only ship prizes within the U.S., Canada, and Europe. For winners outside of these areas, we will substitute an alternate prize such as a gift card.

The fine print: IT Knowledge Exchange’s general contest rules apply. This contest will end on October 7, 2011October 17, 2011.

Today’s featured member, Lord Voldemort, is a Sys Admin in the midwest. His expertise in Windows, HP-UX, VoIP, Exchange, Unified Communications, and EVA storage systems have helped him help the IT Knowledge Exchange community with some great answers and input.

Has Lord Voldemort helped you out recently? Be sure to approve his answer and pay the knowledge forward!

We’re always looking for our next featured member, whether you’re helping out your peers in the forums or giving your two cents in the Open IT Forum discussions. Featured members are shown off in the What’s New boxes, the IT Knowledge Exchange community newsletter, the Community Blog, and on Twitter! In addition to some great swag you’ll get your very own featured member badge to flaunt on your profile page. So get moving in the community, upload a photo, and update your profile so we can properly strut your stuff!

Pay it forward.

Whether you’ve already been featured or you’re super grateful to the community member who helped you troubleshoot your data center meltdown, submit your featured member nominations today. See someone giving knock-out answers or read a particularly insightful blog post? Let us know! Tell us in the comments section here or shoot me an email.

Conducting an application inventory is a key step in determining budget requirements and effort needed in managing an application portfolio. Application rationalization, which involves deciding to retain, retire or upgrade each application, should closely follow the inventory in order to reduce migration time and costs.

This webcast will teach you how to analyze data to identify likely targets for rationalization, including non-business applications, multiple versions of the same application, and applications with redundant functionality. Through this analysis, you’ll be able to produce an interpreted list of applications with prioritization for Windows® 7 migration and testing. By rationalizing the master list of applications, subsequent phases (including Windows® 7 testing, licensing, and support) of application management become more attainable.

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